vob to iso?

[jree1]

I have some vob files that are to large for a DVD 5. They are not separate episodes. I am wanting to convert them to an iso so I can run them through DVDShrink to make them fit. Is there a tool to do this or can it even be done? Thanks.

[t0nee1]

Use IMGBurn to build iso and burn.....

[45tripp]

Dvd shrink can open dvd files if they have the correct structure.


shrink opens video_ts.ifo.
If you don't have your files like the picture above, shrink won't open them, and creating an iso image won't help either. In any case you'd also have to mount the image to a virtual drive.

if you just have the structure but naming is not standard, you can just rename.
if you have vob files only, and not the complete structure, you have 2 logical choices:
a. use them to author an oversized dvd, import to shrink and shrink.
b. use them with an encoder to rencode to smaller files and/or use an editor to cut out stuff,
then author to a dvd5.

how much over target anyway?
what other info can you provide?

[redwudz]

Just to add, the DVD structure and format is shown to the upper left on this page, under 'WHAT IS' DVD. To have a compliant DVD file, you need to adhere to that structure and format.

[guns1inger]

You can also use VOB2MPG to extract the video and audio as an mpg stream, then transcode with rejig, then author and burn.

[jree1]

File structure seems to be correct. I created iso with IMGBurn. DVDShrink ran the files through a scan. However, the original file is over 7 gig and DVDShrink says it is too large. It looks like the compression may be to large. Does IMGBurn do compression? Are there some setting somewhere in IMGBurn that will do this? Any suggestions? Thanks.

[oldandinthe way]

Suggest you try DVDShrink on the DVD files, not the ISO. See if it will do better.

DVD shrink will not be able to shrink the files to fit if there are large audio files or if the encoded video has been highly compressed by the authoring process.

Might be time to consider a DL burn.

[t0nee1]

IMGBurn does not compress... if you can open in shrink it should reduce to DVD-5 size... does it open in shrink? in preview window?
edit > preferences> target size 4.7 GB

[jree1]

Ok. Thanks guys. I got it to work. Appreciate the help.